Conference Speaker Finder
Every field has eight names that appear on three programmes a year. Upload your call for papers or session description and get researchers whose published work matches the theme, each with a short reason.
Find researchers working on your event theme
Upload your call for papers, a session description, or a paper that sets the theme. We read what it is about, then shortlist researchers whose published work sits close to it, with a short reason for each. PDF or Word.
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Why programmes keep inviting the same people
A conference speaker finder suggests researchers whose published work matches the theme of an event, from the call for papers or session description you upload. Programme committees rarely fail for lack of effort. They fail because the invitation list is assembled the way it has always been assembled, from the people in the room and the people those people know, and that pool is smaller than the field by an order of magnitude.
The result is the pattern every regular attendee recognises: the same eight names across three conferences a year, keynotes that could be swapped between events without anyone noticing, and early-career researchers doing the most interesting work on the theme sitting in the audience. Widening the pool is not a matter of goodwill, it is a matter of having a list. Reading who has actually published on the theme in the last two or three years produces names the committee did not have, which is the only part of this a tool can help with.
What to check before you invite someone
Recent work on the theme
The right slot for the person
Somebody who has not been asked
Travel and cost, stated early
Lead time that is realistic
A programme balanced on purpose
How the speaker shortlist is built
The shortlist is built from the document that describes your event rather than from a topic you type, so every name arrives with the overlap that put it there. What it cannot tell you is who is available, who accepts invitations, or who is good on a stage.
Upload the call, the session or a reference paper
Whatever states the theme best, as PDF or Word. No account and no payment. A free usage limit is tied to your email address.
We extract the theme and its methods
The match runs on what the document describes, so a call written in the language of your community still reaches groups who use different words for the same work.
We match against OpenAlex
Candidates come from OpenAlex, an open catalogue of more than 300 million scholarly works. Only public bibliographic records are used.
You get a shortlist with reasoning
Each name carries its affiliation and a short note on the overlap with your theme, so the committee can discuss candidates instead of recalling them.
The committee decides and invites
Balance, seniority mix and budget are yours to weigh, and the invitation is yours to send. We never contact anyone, and nothing here says who is free, who speaks well, or who would accept.
Conference speaker questions
It does not find available speakers. Nothing in a publication record says who is free on your dates, who accepts invitations, who is a good speaker, or who has a travel budget. It also shows no contact details and writes to nobody. What it gives a programme committee is a wider pool of researchers publishing on the theme, which is the part that is hard to assemble from memory.